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Friday, December 18, 2015
Weekly Vocab
*Brownie Camera*: A popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot. *Leica Camera*: a German optics enterprise and manufacture of Leica cameras. *Magnum Photos*: An international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Monday, December 14, 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Weekly Vocabulary 12/7/201
Large Format Photography: Large format refers to any imaging format of 4×5 inches (102×127 mm) or larger.
Miniature Faking: Miniature faking, also known as diorama effect or diorama illusion, is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is made to look like a photograph of a miniature scale resource.
View Camera: The view camera is a type of camera first developed in the era of the daguerrotype (1840s-'50s) and still in use today, though with many refinements. It comprises a flexible bellows that forms a light-tight seal between two adjustable standards, one of which holds a lens, and the other a viewfinder or a photographic holder.
View Camera: The view camera is a type of camera first developed in the era of the daguerrotype (1840s-'50s) and still in use today, though with many refinements. It comprises a flexible bellows that forms a light-tight seal between two adjustable standards, one of which holds a lens, and the other a viewfinder or a photographic holder.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Weekly Vocab
Premo Camera: A box camera is a simple type of camera, the most common form being a cardboard or plastic box with a lens in one end and film at the other. They were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The lenses are often single element designs meniscus fixed focus lens, or in better quality box cameras a doublet lens with minimal (if any) possible adjustments to the aperture or shutter speeds. Because of the inability to adjust focus, the small lens aperture and the low sensitivity of the sensitive materials available, these cameras work best in brightly lit day-lit scenes when the subject is within the hyper focal lenses for the lens and of subjects that move little during the exposure — snapshots.
Photo-secession: The Photo-Secession was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism particular.
Pictorialism: refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it.
Photo-secession: The Photo-Secession was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism particular.
Pictorialism: refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Weekly Vocal
Camera Obscura-a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography.
Speed graphic graflex camera-The most common "press camera" up until the 1960s it has a focal plane shutter.
Contax Camera- A camera brand known for its high optical quality.
Speed graphic graflex camera-The most common "press camera" up until the 1960s it has a focal plane shutter.
Contax Camera- A camera brand known for its high optical quality.
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